HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Which Enlightenment thinker who wrote “The Two Treatises on Government” believed that people are rational and can govern themselves?
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Hobbes
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Locke
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Voltaire
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Rousseau
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Two Treatises of Government, major statement of the political philosophy of the English philosopher John Locke, published in 1689 but substantially composed some years before then.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke (1632–1704) Locke believed that in a state of nature, humans were rational beings and equal in their natural rights to life, liberty, and property, which could not be taken away by anyone without their consent.
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